He has since moved to a 5-by-8-foot pod in the company’s innovation center. He retreats to it when he needs to focus or switch mental gears between meetings. [...] “It’s not about status or privilege,” he says of the pod, a prototype with still-exposed two-by-fours. “This is a space where you do certain kinds of work.”
Which is so very weird because you would think that the genius CEO would want his people to work as efficiently as possible, like himself. But no, open offices are a must so productivity be damned.
How do CEOs become this blind to obvious organizational cruft?
Yeah, sure. Ok.